woensdag 24 juli 2013

top 1000 inspirational art qoutes

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all
over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper,
from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ~Pablo Picasso

“When I
say artist I mean the one who is building things … some with a brush –
some with a shovel – some choose a pen.” ~Jackson Pollock

“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.” ~Paul Cezanne

“Always
dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to
be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better
than yourself.” ~William Faulkner

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.” ~Albert Schweitzer

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ~Michelangelo

“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” ~Auguste Rodin

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” ~John W. Gardner

“Art doesn’t have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.” ~Duane Hanson

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing” ~Pablo Picasso

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time”. ~Thomas Merton

“Go
and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and
fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for
your being here. Make. Good. Art.” ~Neil Gaiman

“The earth has music for those who listen.” ~William Shakespeare

“Art is not a thing, it is a way.” ~Elbert Hubbard

“Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer.” ~Terri Guillemets

“Art
reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom
discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is
making or about to make.” ~Bruce Lee

“Art will remain the most
astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and
madness, between dream and reality in our mind.” ~Magdalena Abakanowicz

“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.” ~James McNeil Whistler

“Personality is everything in art and poetry.” ~Goethe

“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time, it’s just that others are behind the times.” ~ Martha Graham

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” ~ Edgar Degas

“Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be able to sell it.” ~Samuel Butler

“Art is literacy of the heart” ~Elliot Eisner

“Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.” ~Marc Chagall

“At
some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to
photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.” ~Toni Morrison

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” ~Rumi

“It
is good to love many things, for therein lies true strength, and
whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is
done in love is well done.” ~Vincent van Gogh

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne

“The
most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat,
known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way
out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity,
and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion,
gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just
happen.” ~Elizabeth Kubler Ross

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” ~Albert Einstein

“Beauty is the illumination of your soul.” ~John O’Donohue

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” ~Thornton Wilder

“The only journey is the one within.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien

“Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.” ~Robert Henri

“The
trouble with having an open mind, is that people will insist on coming
along and trying to put things in it.” ~Terry Pratchett

We need
to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our
imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our
ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all
hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted
vision of people who embrace life.” ~John Lennon

“Promise me
you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger
than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Christopher Robin (to Pooh)

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~Gandhi

“I think I am, therefore, I am. I think…” ~George Carlin

“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” ~Vincent van Gogh

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” ~Plato

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer

“I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.” ~Lisa Wilson

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” ~Emerson

“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself” ~Rita Mae Brown

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ~Oscar Wilde

“If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord.” ~Johann Sebastian Bach

“You
are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor
should you feel the world must live up to yours.” ~ F. Perl

“The things that make me different are the things that make me.” ~A. A. Milne

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~Steve Jobs

“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” ~André Gide

“There
are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place,
so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only person wasting time
is the one who runs around the mountain, telling everyone that his or
her path is wrong.” ~Hindu proverb

“Poor is the soul whose pleasure depends upon the permission of another” ~Madonna

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” ~Oscar Wilde

“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.” ~Georgia O’Keeffe
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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” ~Leonardo da Vinci

“You don’t make art, you find it” ~Pablo Picasso

“Creativity
is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a
blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach
inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.” ~Lou
Dorfsman

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” ~Pablo Picasso

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~G.B. Shaw

“Everything’s already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.” ~Andre Gide

“Creativity takes courage.” ~Henri Matisse

“How
we spend our days is how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour
and with that one, is what we are doing.” ~Annie Dillard

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” ~Albert Einstein

“I invent nothing, I rediscover.” ~Auguste Rodin

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing” ~Pablo Picasso

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.” ~Marc Chagall

“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.” ~Rumi

“Find something only you can say” ~James Dickey

“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.” ~James Russell Lowell

“Free your mind and your ass will follow” ~George Clinton

“Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite–getting something down.” ~Julia Cameron

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” ~Scott Adams

“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” ~Kurt Vonnegut

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” ~Jung

“Don’t
think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if
it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are
deciding, make even more art.” ~Andy Warhol

“When you play, never mind who listens to you.” ~Robert Schumann

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” ~Leonardo da Vinci

“Go
and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and
fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for
your being here. Make. Good. Art.” ~Neil Gaiman

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.” ~Pema Chödrön

“The
lessons you are meant to learn are in your work. To see them, you need
only look at the work clearly — without judgment, without need or fear,
without wishes or hopes. Without emotional expectations. Ask your work
what it needs, not what you need. Then set aside your fears and listen,
the way a good parent listens to a child” ~David Bayles

“Everything in life comes to you as a teacher. Pay Attention. Learn Quickly.” ~Cherokee saying

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
~Mother Teresa

“You
may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don’t have to be. Just create to
create. Create to remind yourself you’re still alive. Make stuff to
inspire others to make something too. Create to learn a bit more about
yourself.” ~Frederick Terral

“We are not on this earth to
accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and
sandpapered until what’s left is who we truly are.” ~Arianna Huffington

“Finish
each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some
blunders and absurdities have crept in – forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a
spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ~Emerson

“There
is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly
usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the
something you were after.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien

“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.” ~Cyril Connolly

“Life
moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Everything we shut our
eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or
despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, or
evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an
open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to
recognize it as such.” ~Henry Miller

”The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.” ~David Bayles

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” ~Jimi Hendrix

“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” ~Charles Horton Cooley

“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” ~John Burroughs

”It
may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real
work, and then we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our
real journey.” ~Wendell Berry

“It’s better to fail in originality, than succeed in imitation.” ~Herman Melville

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” ~Augusten Burroughs

“Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.” ~Unknown

“Life
is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do
more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do
something else. The trick is the doing something else.” ~Leonardo da
Vinci

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” ~Lao Tzu

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ~Douglas Adams

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” ~Norman Vincent Peale

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” ~Vincent van Gogh

“Whether
you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your
unknown known is the important thing.” ~Georgia O’Keeffe

“Do not fear mistakes—there are none.” ~Miles Davis

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ~Khalil Gibran

“You
should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is
all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it
is…unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.” ~
Alice Neel

“Fail, fail again, fail better” ~Samuel Beckett

“The
greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is
granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.” ~Robert Hughes

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.

“You’ve
got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice.
And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all
that and just wail.” ~Charlie Parker

“When we walk to the edge of
all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the
unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen….There will
be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.”
~Patrick Overton

“Destiny is a feeling you have that you know
something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your
own mind of what you’re about will come true.” ~Bob Dylan

“The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp” ~John Berry

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal — it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~Winston Churchill

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.” ~William Shakespeare

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” ~Kurt Vonnegut

“Nobody
tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of
us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But
there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just
not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not.
And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never
get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting,
creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have
this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And
if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta
know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of
work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one
story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close
that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took
longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s
gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight
your way through.” ~Ira Glass

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment” ~Rumi

“Let
yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not
understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of
them.” ~E.M. Forster

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned in order to have the life that is waiting for us.” ~Joseph Campbell

“Only those that risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~T.S. Eliot

“Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful” ~ John Wooden

“Every
day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache
when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize
them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked
the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and
beauty. We are all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open
up to discover what is already there.” ~Henry Miller

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” ~Soren Kierkegaard

“Listen
to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts,
the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen
close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” ~Shel
Silverstein

‎”Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson

“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” ~Stephen King

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” ~William Shakespeare

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” ~Joseph Chilton Pearce

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” ~Joseph Campbell

“I’ve
been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it
keep me from doing a single think that I wanted to do.” ~Georgia
O’Keeffe

“Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.” ~Eugene Delacroix

We
do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us
something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred
to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity,
wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human
spirit.” ~e.e. cummings

“You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your depths where life calmly gives out it’s own secret” ~Rilke

“It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.” ~Calvin and Hobbes

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ~Nelson Mandela

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” ~Goethe

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ~Sylvia Plath

“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others” ~Lewis Carroll

“Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Thousands
of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle
will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
~Buddha

“No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted” ~Aesop

“At
times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another
person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who
have lighted the flame within us. ” ~Albert Schweitzer

“To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.” ~Jasper Johns

“We
cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our
fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions
run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” ~Herman Melville

“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.” ~Maya Angelou

“Talent
is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not
ourselves, for it is not of our making.” ~Jose Marti

“He neither
serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty
at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel” ~Paul Klee

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” ~Jack Kerouac

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” ~Thoreau

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” ~Henri Matisse

“The
artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place:
from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing
shape, from a spider’s web. ” ~Pablo Picasso

“Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.” ~Philip K. Dick

“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!” ~William Shakespeare

“I shut my eyes in order to see.” ~Paul Gauguin

“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.” ~Anatole France

“You
need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You
need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and
still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be
unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
~Kafka

“Silence is the mother of truth” ~Benjamin Disraeli

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~Thoreau

“No artist tolerates reality.” ~Nietzsche

“Who looks outside, dreams… who looks inside, awakes.” ~Carl Jung

“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.” ~Banksy

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads” ~Erica Jong

“Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly — all these make for great stories.” ~Chuck Palahniuk

“If
you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing,
perhaps you should not be writing what you’re writing. And if this lack
of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I
mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal.
If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just
doesn’t flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work.”
~Ursula K. LeGuin

“Don’t market yourself. Editors and readers
don’t know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write
what you need to write, feed the hunger for meaning in your life. Play
at the serious questions of life and death.” ~Donald M. Murray

“You
ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it
worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If not, then, is there a reason?… I
write only because there is a voice within me. That will not be still.”
~Sylvia Plath

“You have to write the book that wants to be
written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you
write it for children.” ~Madeleine L’Engle

“We do not write as we want, but as we can.” ~W. Somerset Maugham

“I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.” ~Billy Collins

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury

“One
of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it,
play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems
good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it
all, give it now. Something more will arise for later, something
better.” ~Annie Dillard

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” ~Thoreau

“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don’t dare reveal.” ~Elia Kazan

“It’s much more important to write than to be written about.” ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.” ~Dr. Seuss

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.” ~Stephen King

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” Aristotle

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” Oscar Wilde

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” Pablo Picasso

kurt vonnegut quotes“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” Stella Adler

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.” Schumann

“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'” Vincent Van Gogh

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” Pablo Picasso

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free” Michelangelo

“For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.” Georges Rouault

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” Theodore Dreiser

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” James McNeill Whistler

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” Vincent Van Gogh

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams

“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.” Edgar Degas

“Inspiration does exist but it must find you working.” Pablo Picasso

“The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.” Vincent Van Gogh

“The
artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where
he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” Paul Strand

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” Henry David Thoreau

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” Dr Suess

“There
are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are
others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow
spot into the sun.” Pablo Picasso

“It is not the language of
painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the
feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than
the feeling for pictures.” Vincent Van Gogh

“If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.” Albrecht Durer

paul strand quotes“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” Pablo Picasso

“I wish they would only take me as I am.” Vincent Van Gogh

“Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.” Rembrandt

“Art is never finished, only abandoned” Leonardo Da Vinci

“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” Kurt Vonnegut

“It
is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what
one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of
academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.”
Mark Rothko

"Art, Undeniably, is conductive to happiness." unknown

“Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the
good side of it is that it gives energy.” Vincent Van Gogh

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Pablo Picasso

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Andy Warhol

“The
greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is
granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.” Robert Hughes

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” Émile Zola

“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” Vincent Van Gogh

van gogh quotes"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"As
practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one
makes, each study one paints, is a step forward." Vincent van Gogh

“Do not fear mistakes - there are none.” Miles David

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” Michelangelo

“In
our time there are many artists who do something because it is new;
they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are
deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do
with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.”
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

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“You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all
flat.” Pierre Auguste Renoir

“The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.” Vincent Van Gogh

"If
I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the
reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the
veil of the soul." Paul Cezanne

"If you always do what you always did - you'll always get what you always got."
Unknown

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” - John W. Gardner

“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” - Robert Henri

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” - Andre Gide

“I invent nothing, I rediscover.” Auguste Rodin

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” Vincent van Gogh

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” Henry Ward Beecher

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~Scott Adams

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~Pablo Picasso

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~Twyla Tharp

The
aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial
means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger
looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ~William Faulkner

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. ~Stella Adler

Painting is silent poetry. ~Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. ~Leonardo da Vinci

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet. ~Kojiro Tomita

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ~Amy Lowell

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ~Schumann

We
all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize
truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist
must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of
his lies. ~Pablo Picasso

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ~Henri Matisse

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. ~Charles Horton Cooley

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer

To
make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only
make us feel small in the wrong way. ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for
Democracy, 1951

Art is the stored honey of the human soul,
gathered on wings of misery and travail. ~Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art,
and America, 1917

The artist's world is limitless. It can be
found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is
always on his doorstep. ~Paul Strand

All art requires courage. ~Anne Tucker

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ~Oscar Wilde

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ~Edgar Degas

It
is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often
about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. ~Henry Moore

Pictures must not be too picturesque. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ~André Gide

But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy. ~The New Yorker

Very
few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both
unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat
something sweet and the feeling will pass. ~Fran Lebowitz

Great art picks up where nature ends. ~Marc Chagall

When
my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did
at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach
people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean
they forget?" ~Howard Ikemoto

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. ~G.K. Chesterton

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. ~John Updike

The
artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the
opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does
not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience
and understanding of life. ~Henry Miller

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ~Oscar Wilde

Let me ask you something, what is not art? ~Author Unknown

An
artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have
but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give
them. ~Andy Warhol

The buttocks are the most aesthetically
pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although
they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as
the human form can ever come to abstract art. ~Kenneth Tynan

God and other artists are always a little obscure. ~Oscar Wilde

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ~Georges Rouault

Everything
in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage
like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes
to set it free. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The progress of an artist
is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

There is
no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer
method of linking oneself to it than by Art. ~Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe

Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening. ~Aaron Howard

I
found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any
other way - things I had no words for. ~Georgia O'Keeffe

Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money. ~Ernst Levy

Modern
art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade
themselves that they have a better idea. ~John Anthony Ciardi

As
far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use
of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only
one language. ~Pablo Picasso

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. ~Henri Matisse, Notes d'un peintre, 1908

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. ~George Jean Nathan, House of Satan

Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. ~Mark Stevens

God
is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant
and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other
things. ~Pablo Picasso

Art doesn't have to matter to a lot of people to matter a lot. ~Jeb Dickerson

Art hath an enemy called ignorance. ~Ben Jonson

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. ~Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Art...
does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories,
and is killed outright by a sermon. ~Agnes Repplier, Points of View,
1891

Art disturbs, science reassures. ~Georges Braque, Le Jour et la nuit

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. ~John Lubbock

It
is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great
scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. ~Loren Eiseley, The
Night Country, 1971

Art is spirituality in drag. ~Jennifer Yane

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art. ~Kim Nance

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. ~Martin H. Fischer

What
was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining
elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running
away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. ~Willa Cather

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. ~George Santayana

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ~Lincoln Steffens

Art is not a thing; it is a way. ~Elbert Hubbard

An artist's career always begins tomorrow. ~James McNeill Whistler

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. ~Edmond & Jules de Goncourt

When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas. ~Terri Guillemets

An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash. ~Terri Guillemets

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ~G.K. Chesterton

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. ~André Malraux

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. ~Paul Valéry

Artistic
growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of
truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the
artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. ~Willa Cather, The
Song of the Lark, 1915

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. ~Oscar Wilde

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. ~Jean Cocteau

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. ~Alfred Tonnelle

Art is the struggle to understand. ~Terri Guillemets

A
man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the
detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose
presence his heart first opened. ~Albert Camus

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. ~William McElcheran

Art is a kind of illness. ~Giacomo Puccini

A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ~George Moore

A man and his art are like a fool and his king. ~Terri Guillemets

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. ~Henri Cartier-Bresson

I
am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something
other than sit on its ass in a museum. ~Claes Oldenburg

Science
is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal
truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon
things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the
lower and less intellectual spheres. ~Oscar Wilde, The Critic as
Artist, 1891

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. ~Odilon Redon

There
is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward
you can remove all traces of reality. ~Pablo Picasso

If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Terri Guillemets

My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality. ~Daniel R. Lynch

The
question of common sense is always what is it good for? - a question
which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the
cabbage. ~James Russell Lowell

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~Aristotle

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer. ~Terri Guillemets

Listen
carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is
about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the
only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. ~Jean
Cocteau

Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves. ~Konfal Blyther

Any
great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the
measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant
of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you
breathe its strange, special air. ~Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera
Grand?

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil
imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's
grandchild. ~Dante Alighieri, Inferno

A portrait has one
advantage over its original: it is unconscious; and you may therefore
admire without insulting it. I have seen portraits which have more.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two
Brothers, 1827

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from
truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. ~Thomas
Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlets, no. 8

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ~George Bernard Shaw

Artists
can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who
aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might
think we're stupid. ~Jules Feiffer

All the other colors are
just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun
and an adjective but also a verb - when you look at it, it's looking
back at you. ~Uniek Swain

Architecture begins where engineering ends. ~Walter Gropius

Lying
in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only
one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ~G.K.
Chesterton

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. ~Marie Laurencin

Art is Man's nature. Nature is god's art. ~James Bailey

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. ~John Ruskin

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp (1909 - 1979)

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), Dialogues (1954)

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions
of his personality to the world he lives in. Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

I
have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense
of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would
entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or
etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer
ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to
creative disaster.
Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)

I
suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of
question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never
really finished; it is abandoned.
Brooke McEldowney, Pibgorn commentary, 03-31-05

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.
Charles Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

Art
forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose
for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons,
aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of
that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its
interests.
David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, 07-19-06

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
I
don't understand why people think everything has to have meaning. While
painting the Mona Lisa did Leonardo Da Vinci intend for it to have
greater meaning than a work of art that he made?
Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )

If
you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what
would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is
alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To
live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)

Works
of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to
possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that
only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

Art
is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the
simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art.
For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the
oppressors?
Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896)

It
is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days
when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down
on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the
day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and
start again.
Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)

I
don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to
do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If
there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this
question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of
it.
Federico Fellini (1920 - 1993)

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)

I
paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I
need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other
consideration.
Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)

Step 1.) Do something incredibly stupid and obnoxious to attract attention to yourself

Don’t
be afraid to think outside the box here. This can be in the form of a
video, stunt, hoax, or just good old-fashioned vandalism. Keep in mind
that as a culture we have become somewhat desensitized to people doing
stupid things from years of watching people do stupid things, so try to
think big.

Step 2.) Be sure to record your act of stupidity and publish it on YouTube.

Remember
that recording and documenting your act of idiocy is not optional here.
These days if you don’t capture something on video, you might as well
go back to live in your primitive cave of obscurity.

Famous Idiot Exhibit #1

It’s
the whole tree falling in the forest kind of thing. This isn’t 2005
and nobody wants to sit down and read about it in some old-fashioned
newspaper, they want to actually see it happen so they can shake their
head in disbelief as they are clicking on the share buttons.

Although
it’s true that you might get fined or arrested for your stunt, don’t
worry about it because you will also get your name in the papers, the
blogs, cable news channels, and other ridiculous websites (like this
one) that have nothing better to do than to give you more free
publicity.

Just make sure that they spell your name correctly.

Step 3.) Get rewarded for your idiocy and bask in your new-found fame

Congratulations
you are now famous! Please keep in mind, however that although your
fame may be immediate, it is far from permanent. So while you are
soaking in your 15 minutes of fame, be sure to be thinking about your
next public spectacle of stupidity. Because as much as we enjoy
watching your personal train-wreck on YouTube, there is always another
idiot just around the corner waiting to shock and amuse us.

Then again, there is nothing wrong with fame itself.

Don’t
get the wrong idea here. There is nothing wrong with being famous. Just
as there is no inherent goodness from spending your life toiling in
obscurity.

Being famous doesn’t make you any better of a creative
artist. In fact, those who achieve a certain amount of fame often feel
trapped by it (I know boo-boo right?). As soon as someone achieves some
degree of fame and success however, the temptation is always there for
them to stick with that same tried-and-true formula, instead of risking
potential failure by trying something new. They find themselves suddenly
trapped in a creative rut because of the expectations of their
audience.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. ~Ray Charles

Fame
is (or at least should be) the public recognition that you have
achieved some degree of mastery at your chosen profession. What fame
shouldn’t be, however, is a goal in itself.

So maybe we should
stop wasting all of of this energy trying to get ourselves noticed and
perhaps spend some of that time working on becoming a better creative
artist.